- Paddy Mayne - Wikipedia
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO Three Bars (11 January 1915 – 14 December 1955), best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards
- Brave, brutal and misunderstood: Paddy Mayne, the daring Irishman who . . .
THE Irishman Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne must rank among the most courageous and significant heroes of the Second World War Yet his name is little known outside of the realm of military history buffs, and perhaps, thanks to a pending BBC drama, also Tom Hardy fans
- Irish SAS Hero: Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne - HistoryNet
Speeding home after a night out drinking with a friend, 40-year-old “Paddy” Mayne was killed when his roadster struck a parked truck and collided with a telegraph pole at 4 a m on Dec 14, 1955 He is buried at Movilla Cemetery in his hometown of Newtownards
- Paddy Mayne: An SAS Legend and a Dangerous Loose Cannon
Blair “Paddy” Mayne was one of the pillars of the early SAS A man of extraordinary nerve but equally a man with a problematic temperament, Mayne epitomised the qualities you’d look for in an SAS operative
- The real Paddy Mayne of SAS Rogue Heroes - HistoryExtra
Paddy Mayne went on to lead a series of successful desert raids in Africa, helping to build the SAS’s reputation as an ever-present threat to the enemy’s tail, while becoming an inspiration to the tough ex-commandos serving under him
- ‘Paddy’ Mayne: An Irish Lion - National Army Museum
Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Paddy’ Mayne is a legendary figure in the history of the Special Forces A celebrated sportsman with a turbulent character, he played a vital role in the early successes of the Special Air Service (SAS), becoming one of its most important commanders
- Paddy Mayne: Who was the SAS founder from Newtownards? - BBC
More than eight decades have passed since a small group of commandos wreaked havoc on the Nazis and their Italian allies in North Africa, marking the birth of one of the British Army's most well
- Mayne, Robert Blair (‘Paddy’) | Dictionary of Irish Biography
Mayne, Robert Blair (‘Paddy’) (1915–55), sportsman and soldier, was born 11 January 1915 at Mount Pleasant, Newtownards, Co Down, third son of William Mayne, businessman, and Margaret Mayne (née Blair)
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